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Most Reverend Robert N. LynchAre you called to the Priesthood or Religious Life?
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Bishop Lynch's Response to Announcement about the Health Care Plan
On Friday, January 20, 2012, the White House announced that there will be no change in the health care plan regulations that were previously issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. To read Bishop Robert Lynch's response to this announcement, please click HERE.
PLANNING A TRIP TO ROME?Thousands of people go to Rome each year, hoping to see Pope Benedict XVI and participate in his liturgical celebrations and make their pilgrimage more spiritually meaningful. For Papal Audiences, Papal Masses, Group Tickets to Papal Events you can visit : The Bishop's Office for ...
(Picture from the Bishop's Office for the U.S. Visitors to the Vatican)
Episcopacy Symbols
A bishop, from the Greek word episkopos (overseer), is a direct successor to the apostles. Bishops have, by divine institution, taken the place of the apostles as pastors of the church. In fact, the bishop himself is a symbol and is surrounded by symbols. Let us look at some of them. The Bishop's ...
